Childhood proverbs

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◆ If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.

- Markus Zusak99

◆ [Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

- Jim Henson99

◆ Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

- C.S. Lewis99

◆ When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

- Patrick Rothfuss99

◆ I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.

- Neil Gaiman99

◆ It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

- Tom Robbins99

◆ As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.

- C.G. Jung99

◆ I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway... let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves.

- C. JoyBell C.99

◆ Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.

- Roald Dahl99

◆ Gym should be illegal. It's humiliating.

- Laurie Halse Anderson99

◆ We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt99

◆ Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.

- Flannery O'Connor99

◆ For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.

- John Connolly99

◆ Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay at home and wait for the children to fly in the window.

- Audrey Niffenegger99

◆ Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.

- George R.R. Martin99